Sharon Doheny
Biographic Data
| ID | 334514 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon Doheny |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon |
| FAMILY NAME | Doheny |
| SIGNATURE | DOHENY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0529-7301 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Non‐Directiveness and Authenticity in the Predictive Genetic Clinic
The predictive genetic clinic is a space where counsellors use non‐directive counselling to facilitate asymptomatic patients at risk of carrying a dominantly inherited disease access a predictive genetic test. The social science literature has a history of examining practices within this clinic, but with little attention from the sociology of identity. In this paper, we highlight the importance of identity within these clinics by examining how cu…
Genetic testing and family entanglements
The development of the 'new genetics' in the early 1990's opened up a new space which required some patients and families to understand and navigate genetic testing. The social science literature that has grown alongside the 'new genetics', now spanning more than thirty years, has continued to explore and question assumptions about attitudes and responses towards genetic technologies. In this article we highlight how individual experience of gene…
What's so critical about it? An analysis of critique within different strands of critical gerontology
Shortly after emerging in the 1980s, critical gerontology became a recognised part of mainstream gerontology. Under the umbrella of ‘critical gerontology’ sits a number of orientations that draw attention to how ageing is socially located, while foregrounding the importance of values in ageing research. Nevertheless, as critical gerontology is not a clearly defined field or orientation, inconsistencies in the use of ‘critique’ among critical gero…
Doing evidence-based medicine? How NHS managers ration high-cost drugs
Constructing 'exceptionality: A neglected aspect of NHS rationing
In the British NHS the principle of exceptionality involves assessing whether a patient is sufficiently different from the generality of patients to justify providing a treatment, such as an expensive cancer drug, not approved for routine funding. In England, individual requests for certain high-cost treatments are considered by local panels that examine exceptionality alongside treatment efficacy and cost as the main criteria for funding. This w…
Dimensions of responsibility in medical genetics: Exploring the complexity of the “duty to recontact”
Discussion of a “duty to recontact” emerged as technological advances left professionals considering getting back in touch with patients they had seen in the past. While there has been much discussion of the duty to recontact as a matter of theory and ethics, there has been rather little empirically based analysis of what this “duty” consists of. Drawing on interviews with 34 professionals working in, or closely with, genetics services, this pape…
Community, rurality, and older people: Critically comparing older people's experiences across different rural communities
Modernization and Devolution: Delivering Services for Older People in Rural Areas of E ngland and W ales
The modernization of public services, with its emphasis on managerialism, choice, co‐production and outcome focused service delivery, has been implemented to a certain extent in both E ngland and W ales. Indeed, the welfare states in both countries share a great deal, particularly in relation to policy objectives and the expectations of citizens. Devolution has chiefly meant that the instruments used to deliver policy have separated, although it …
Older people and poverty in rural Britain: Material hardships, cultural denials and social inclusions
Deliberating Tarceva: A case study of how British NHS managers decide whether to purchase a high-cost drug in the shadow of Nice guidance
Contracts in the English NHS: Market levers and social embeddedness
This paper draws parallels between the market trend in the English NHS and Polanyi’s (1957) The Great Transformation: The political and economic origins of our time, Beacon Press: Boston (originally published in 1944 in the United States as The Great Transformation, Rinehart: and Co: New York, and in 1945 in England as Origins of our time, Gollancz: London) account of how the rise of markets provokes a self-protective counter-reaction that tries …
Becoming Deliberative Citizens: The Moral Learning Process of the Citizen Juror
This article presents an analysis of qualitative interviews carried out with citizen jurors at least three years after they participated in a jury. Theoretical work on deliberation tends to emphasise the transformative effect of deliberation. Much empirical work has focused on this transformation conceived as the re-prioritisation of preferences, and examines whether and how jurors change their personal and political commitments as a result of th…
Citizen governance: Opportunities for Inclusivity in Policy and Policy Making
English The term ‘citizen governance’ (CG) is currently attracting attention in policy circles. Yet there is no universally agreed definition, and the term is used in different ways. This article identifies key tensions between citizen governors’ ‘representation’ and ‘steering’ roles, and presents a framework that attempts to make these tensions more explicit. Case study evidence suggests that the effectiveness of CG structures is contextual rath…
Responsibility and the Deliberative Citizen: Theorizing the Acceptance of Individual and Citizenship Responsibilities
The responsibilities of citizenship have, in recent years, become a central concern in political and policy debates. Nevertheless, the practical meanings of such responsibilities have remained opaque. This article examines these meanings by asking what theories of citizenship have to say about how people engage with, and accept, their responsibilities. An examination of how the liberal, communitarian, republican and deliberative democratic theori…
Intermittent aberrations: Can mature companies innovate
A whole literature has grown up around the apparently intractable hostility between innovation and bureaucracy, between those who create and those who control. Smart and speedy start-ups blindside mature companies with their inventiveness then grow up into mature companies and are outsmarted in their turn. The only way for innovation to survive in mature companies is to isolate the creators from the managers in protected enclaves. If this is true…
Older people and poverty in rural Britain: Material hardships, cultural denials and social inclusions
Genetic testing and family entanglements
The development of the 'new genetics' in the early 1990's opened up a new space which required some patients and families to understand and navigate genetic testing. The social science literature that has grown alongside the 'new genetics', now spanning more than thirty years, has continued to explore and question assumptions about attitudes and responses towards genetic technologies. In this article we highlight how individual experience of gene…
Community, rurality, and older people: Critically comparing older people's experiences across different rural communities
Deliberating Tarceva: A case study of how British NHS managers decide whether to purchase a high-cost drug in the shadow of Nice guidance
Contracts in the English NHS: Market levers and social embeddedness
This paper draws parallels between the market trend in the English NHS and Polanyi’s (1957) The Great Transformation: The political and economic origins of our time, Beacon Press: Boston (originally published in 1944 in the United States as The Great Transformation, Rinehart: and Co: New York, and in 1945 in England as Origins of our time, Gollancz: London) account of how the rise of markets provokes a self-protective counter-reaction that tries …
Citizen governance: Opportunities for Inclusivity in Policy and Policy Making
English The term ‘citizen governance’ (CG) is currently attracting attention in policy circles. Yet there is no universally agreed definition, and the term is used in different ways. This article identifies key tensions between citizen governors’ ‘representation’ and ‘steering’ roles, and presents a framework that attempts to make these tensions more explicit. Case study evidence suggests that the effectiveness of CG structures is contextual rath…
What's so critical about it? An analysis of critique within different strands of critical gerontology
Shortly after emerging in the 1980s, critical gerontology became a recognised part of mainstream gerontology. Under the umbrella of ‘critical gerontology’ sits a number of orientations that draw attention to how ageing is socially located, while foregrounding the importance of values in ageing research. Nevertheless, as critical gerontology is not a clearly defined field or orientation, inconsistencies in the use of ‘critique’ among critical gero…
Doing evidence-based medicine? How NHS managers ration high-cost drugs
Becoming Deliberative Citizens: The Moral Learning Process of the Citizen Juror
This article presents an analysis of qualitative interviews carried out with citizen jurors at least three years after they participated in a jury. Theoretical work on deliberation tends to emphasise the transformative effect of deliberation. Much empirical work has focused on this transformation conceived as the re-prioritisation of preferences, and examines whether and how jurors change their personal and political commitments as a result of th…
Responsibility and the Deliberative Citizen: Theorizing the Acceptance of Individual and Citizenship Responsibilities
The responsibilities of citizenship have, in recent years, become a central concern in political and policy debates. Nevertheless, the practical meanings of such responsibilities have remained opaque. This article examines these meanings by asking what theories of citizenship have to say about how people engage with, and accept, their responsibilities. An examination of how the liberal, communitarian, republican and deliberative democratic theori…
Constructing 'exceptionality: A neglected aspect of NHS rationing
In the British NHS the principle of exceptionality involves assessing whether a patient is sufficiently different from the generality of patients to justify providing a treatment, such as an expensive cancer drug, not approved for routine funding. In England, individual requests for certain high-cost treatments are considered by local panels that examine exceptionality alongside treatment efficacy and cost as the main criteria for funding. This w…
Modernization and Devolution: Delivering Services for Older People in Rural Areas of E ngland and W ales
The modernization of public services, with its emphasis on managerialism, choice, co‐production and outcome focused service delivery, has been implemented to a certain extent in both E ngland and W ales. Indeed, the welfare states in both countries share a great deal, particularly in relation to policy objectives and the expectations of citizens. Devolution has chiefly meant that the instruments used to deliver policy have separated, although it …
Intermittent aberrations: Can mature companies innovate
A whole literature has grown up around the apparently intractable hostility between innovation and bureaucracy, between those who create and those who control. Smart and speedy start-ups blindside mature companies with their inventiveness then grow up into mature companies and are outsmarted in their turn. The only way for innovation to survive in mature companies is to isolate the creators from the managers in protected enclaves. If this is true…
Citizen governance: Opportunities for Inclusivity in Policy and Policy Making
English The term ‘citizen governance’ (CG) is currently attracting attention in policy circles. Yet there is no universally agreed definition, and the term is used in different ways. This article identifies key tensions between citizen governors’ ‘representation’ and ‘steering’ roles, and presents a framework that attempts to make these tensions more explicit. Case study evidence suggests that the effectiveness of CG structures is contextual rath…
Responsibility and the Deliberative Citizen: Theorizing the Acceptance of Individual and Citizenship Responsibilities
The responsibilities of citizenship have, in recent years, become a central concern in political and policy debates. Nevertheless, the practical meanings of such responsibilities have remained opaque. This article examines these meanings by asking what theories of citizenship have to say about how people engage with, and accept, their responsibilities. An examination of how the liberal, communitarian, republican and deliberative democratic theori…
Becoming Deliberative Citizens: The Moral Learning Process of the Citizen Juror
This article presents an analysis of qualitative interviews carried out with citizen jurors at least three years after they participated in a jury. Theoretical work on deliberation tends to emphasise the transformative effect of deliberation. Much empirical work has focused on this transformation conceived as the re-prioritisation of preferences, and examines whether and how jurors change their personal and political commitments as a result of th…
Deliberating Tarceva: A case study of how British NHS managers decide whether to purchase a high-cost drug in the shadow of Nice guidance
Contracts in the English NHS: Market levers and social embeddedness
This paper draws parallels between the market trend in the English NHS and Polanyi’s (1957) The Great Transformation: The political and economic origins of our time, Beacon Press: Boston (originally published in 1944 in the United States as The Great Transformation, Rinehart: and Co: New York, and in 1945 in England as Origins of our time, Gollancz: London) account of how the rise of markets provokes a self-protective counter-reaction that tries …
Older people and poverty in rural Britain: Material hardships, cultural denials and social inclusions
Modernization and Devolution: Delivering Services for Older People in Rural Areas of E ngland and W ales
The modernization of public services, with its emphasis on managerialism, choice, co‐production and outcome focused service delivery, has been implemented to a certain extent in both E ngland and W ales. Indeed, the welfare states in both countries share a great deal, particularly in relation to policy objectives and the expectations of citizens. Devolution has chiefly meant that the instruments used to deliver policy have separated, although it …
Community, rurality, and older people: Critically comparing older people's experiences across different rural communities
Dimensions of responsibility in medical genetics: Exploring the complexity of the “duty to recontact”
Discussion of a “duty to recontact” emerged as technological advances left professionals considering getting back in touch with patients they had seen in the past. While there has been much discussion of the duty to recontact as a matter of theory and ethics, there has been rather little empirically based analysis of what this “duty” consists of. Drawing on interviews with 34 professionals working in, or closely with, genetics services, this pape…
Doing evidence-based medicine? How NHS managers ration high-cost drugs
Constructing 'exceptionality: A neglected aspect of NHS rationing
In the British NHS the principle of exceptionality involves assessing whether a patient is sufficiently different from the generality of patients to justify providing a treatment, such as an expensive cancer drug, not approved for routine funding. In England, individual requests for certain high-cost treatments are considered by local panels that examine exceptionality alongside treatment efficacy and cost as the main criteria for funding. This w…
What's so critical about it? An analysis of critique within different strands of critical gerontology
Shortly after emerging in the 1980s, critical gerontology became a recognised part of mainstream gerontology. Under the umbrella of ‘critical gerontology’ sits a number of orientations that draw attention to how ageing is socially located, while foregrounding the importance of values in ageing research. Nevertheless, as critical gerontology is not a clearly defined field or orientation, inconsistencies in the use of ‘critique’ among critical gero…
Genetic testing and family entanglements
The development of the 'new genetics' in the early 1990's opened up a new space which required some patients and families to understand and navigate genetic testing. The social science literature that has grown alongside the 'new genetics', now spanning more than thirty years, has continued to explore and question assumptions about attitudes and responses towards genetic technologies. In this article we highlight how individual experience of gene…
Non‐Directiveness and Authenticity in the Predictive Genetic Clinic
The predictive genetic clinic is a space where counsellors use non‐directive counselling to facilitate asymptomatic patients at risk of carrying a dominantly inherited disease access a predictive genetic test. The social science literature has a history of examining practices within this clinic, but with little attention from the sociology of identity. In this paper, we highlight the importance of identity within these clinics by examining how cu…
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